Brian A. Dixon is an associate professor of English at Goodwin University and currently serves as Course Coordinator for Collegiate English. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island, where he specialized in cultural studies in addition to serving as the assistant editor of ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly. His academic writings include studies concerning college writing centers, nineteenth-century American literature, detectives in film and fiction, ethnic humor in British sitcoms, the works of Ian Fleming, and the James Bond films.